PJ Vogt

When they fail a route, they know what the car can't handle, so they go back and say...

You have to be better at doing X, Y, Z. And then we got back to the office.

We regrouped.

We went back out, I think, at like 11 p.m.

And by 1 a.m., we had completed the route.

They buy a bottle of Korbel champagne.

They all write their names on it.

Korbel, $13.99 a bottle.

The champagne they have at Trader Joe's.

They had one for every route they completed.

And one by one, they pick off the Larry 1K routes.

And they think this is going to take them about two years when they start out.

And they do it in a little bit more than a year.

Nearly twice as fast as they had expected.

By fall of 2010, they're done.

Here's Chris Ermson.

They throw each other in the pool.

They celebrate, and then they're not entirely sure what to do next.

The team had pulled off a kind of miracle in a year.

A driverless car with human supervision, with lots of human coding, but still a driverless car successfully navigating some very tricky roads in California.